when I want to see and hear today when it has become yesterday, I should recall…

– Cohen so excited to stay up late with me and watch the “music show” (American Idol). Last week he told the TV: “good job J-Lo, good job sitting in the chair” It is a special treat for him to stay up on Wednesday or Thursday nights to lay on the couch with me and watch “TVV” (for some reason, he doubles the “V”)

-Sophie’s pudgy cheeks sticking out over her new green, flower-print rain coat as she falls asleep without complaint in her carseat on the way to and from the Kohl Children’s Museum

-Jacob: “Cohen, look, it’s a picture of a submarine” Cohen: (confused look) “No– AUNT Maurine!” (the only other “marine” he knows!)